What State Department spokesman Mark C. Toner said after videos began circulating on social media showing President Barack Obama’s Syrian rebel friends beheading a boy suspected of being a pro-government fighter perfectly demonstrated this administration’s pure cowardice.

“If, as you said, if we can prove that this was indeed what happened and this group was involved in it, I think it would certainly give us pause,” he said during a State Department briefing this Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

When reporters then asked Toner whether this meant the Syrian rebels whom the Obama administration supports would face “some kind of consequence,” he again resorted to his feeble rhetoric about a “pause.”

“I can’t — again, I can’t say what that consequence will be, but it will certainly give us, as I said, serious pause and we’ll look at, frankly, any affiliation or cooperation with this group we may have going forward, if these allegations are proven true,” he said.

US unsure about whether or not to suspend support for rebel group that beheaded a 12 year old boy in Syria. pic.twitter.com/uNA2pkkmIi

According to Al Jazeera, the boy murdered by the rebels was Abdullah Issa, a poor, impoverished and ill child who was anything but a fighter.

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“He lived in al-Mashhad (Aleppo) with his family, among multiple poor families that live in the area under the control of terrorists,” a statement by the Jewish Jerusalem brigade read. “By taking one glance at the child, the argument that he was a fighter is immediately disapproved.”

These twisted terrorists, reportedly members of the Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki insurgent group, murdered an innocent boy and then celebrated afterward.

Moreover, video evidence from the beheading appeared to prove it.

Yet all the State Department has to say is that it might take a “pause,” whatever the heck that means. What a pitiful, tragic and horrifying joke.